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Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies (Paperback)

by Lee Varis (Author)

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (31 Oct 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 047004733X
ISBN-13: 978-0470047330
Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.1 x 2.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 145,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Description

Achieving accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging tasks in digital photography. Master this challenge with professional photographer Lee Varis as he covers a range of skin: women and men, young and old, various tones, in–studio and outdoors, tattoos, and more. His step–by–step tutorials and before–and–after illustrations demonstrate various techniques for topics such as digital–specific lighting challenges and what can and cannot be done in post–process.

A free CD–ROM accompanies the book and contains sample image files to use while following the tutorials, plus equipment recommendations and technical reference materials that enhance and reinforce the instruction.

Order your copy of this practical guide today and get a complete start–to–finish approach to integrating everything from posing models to shooting and retouching candid scenes.

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What is the color of skin?

A practical guide to photographing people in the digital age

It′s one thing to snap someone′s picture. It′s another thing entirely to capture the essence that made you reach for your camera in the first place. Now a top Hollywood pro shares his secrets for the digital capture of human skin in all its variety: young, old, male, female, different skin tones and ethnicities, with makeup or without—even tattooed skin!

Using step–by–step tutorials and stunning full–color examples, industry expert Lee Varis teaches it all: the basics of digital imaging, essential tricks to shooting indoors and out, how to light your subjects in any pose, and much more. Above all, you′ll find out why the color of skin that′s best for final output is almost always a departure from reality.

Topics include:

Starting with the right hardware and software settings
Developing your digital color "chops"
Mastering Rembrandt lighting and other basic techniques
Overcoming common digital skin problems, such as too much red
Adjusting skin tones to withstand nearby colors like green grass
Faking tattoos and photographing the real thing
Trimming the fat, lighting up the eyes, and filling in wrinkles
Adding soft focus, retouching, and other advanced Photoshop® techniques
Discovering what can and what can′t be done in post–process

Follow the tutorials in the book with numerous before–and–after sample image files on the companion CD. You′ll also find technical reference materials to enhance and reinforce your learning.

Know how to soften wrinkles and change shapes—and when not to!
Beautifully color–balance every skin tone
Brilliantly light any number of subjects in any location

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply amazing, 12 May 2007

By	A. Papushoy (England, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a book that unveils a lot of the secrets of professional photography retouching with a strong focus on Photoshop. Also includes various studio lighting set-ups and tips. It also shows you how to do that realistic yet strong retouching of skin that you always wanted to know how to do. Recommended for anyone who does post-processing in Photoshop and would like to make the best use of it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Missing The Point, 22 Nov 2008

By	D. Harty (Coventry, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is really a book that tries to be a digital photography book, and then a photoshop book, and finally adds a few comments about skin. I wanted to know about skin tones in RGB, CMYK and Lab colour. I wanted to know about skin tones for different races. I wanted to know how photoshop plugins like Imagenomic Portraiture actually work. I wanted to know all the stuff I know that I don't know about skin tones. This book could have been all those things, but isn't. I learned much, much more about it all in the "Canyon Conundrum" book - this book gave me very little considering how many pages of it there are.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate skin, 17 Nov 2007

By	R. Benson (South West UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let's face it taking a good photograph is now only part of the story, to make a great image now requires a good grasp of retouching techniques. Skin is an incredible book full of sensible advice & professional techniques on making great images from your photographs. If you take portrait/people shots regularly, and retouch them this book is a good investment.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Overcomplicated post-processing
Having read quite a few books and articles on how to improve the appearance of skin, this book describes some new approaches that work well, but equally describes some very... Read more

Published 20 months ago by Andrew Beach

1.0 out of 5 stars Overkill
Too much photoshop and not enough technique. Is it not better to get the shot right in camera and not need to over process the shot. Why make a silk purse out of a sows ear?

Published 21 months ago by C. Duffin

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